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Airport annoyances

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NUTS4theBUCKS28;1645697; said:
what about annoying babies who never stop crying during a flight?
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Babies cry, Ned. What pisses me off are the parents who not only don't even try to do anything about it, but act like their kid screaming their lungs out and generally annoying people is the most adorable fucking thing ever. For some reason I experience this every time I fly.

Went to Europe last summer. About an hour into the first flight this baby across the aisle from me starts crying. Which is fine, whatever. The parents literally stared at it for about 20 minutes before they decided to give it a bottle. The only explanation I have is that their Ambien hit them a little too hard and they forgot where they were.

Flight back to the States, I'm sitting there reading a book, hung over, still on the way down, haven't showered in a couple days, pretty sure a gypsy gave me hepatitis, really not in the mood. This little boy, probably 7 or 8*, sitting a few rows behind me walks up and starts asking me a bunch of questions. Then he tries to open my bag. Then he keeps trying to take my book. I look back and see the dad smiling at me, not a "haha yeah my kid's a douchebag, have fun dealing with him" kind of smile, but a "aww shucks ain't he cute" kind of smile. Told him to "get your fucking child before I throw him out the window". Next 5 hours were smooth sailin'.

*If anyone saw that episode of Everybody Loves Raymond with that kid Spencer who takes a bite of Ray's last cannoli then throws it in the trash...pretty much a carbon copy of him. I hope he's dead.
 
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rock454;1648515; said:
That's my annoyance, all the crap people feel they need to carry on and the size of their "carry-on" bags. You end up getting stuck behind some person who takes 10 minutes to get all of their stuff packed back up when deboarding. It's the airline's faults for not enforcing the size/quantity limits on carry-ons though.
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If your bag fits length-wise into the bin it's fine. If you're bag has to be put in horizontally then it's a problem. The worst is the fad of HUGE women's purses that take up too much space.

Keep it on your lap you whales.
 
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Kids in first class. Met some family at Disney World over Christmas, so I knew going in EWR-MCO was going to be loud, and booked up front hoping to avoid the rugrats. Uh-uh. Two brothers, their wives, and about 4 kids who treated FC like it was their living room.

Then today, a lap child a row behind me in first going IAH-EWR. If I wasn't so tired from coming back from HI, I would've punted the tot.
 
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computerji;1647959; said:
It's 2:40 PM, your plane is supposed to take off at 2:45 PM, you haven't started boarding yet, and the official notice still says "2:45 PM ON TIME"
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"Departure" time is not "take-off" time, but rather when they pull away from the gate.
 
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Unbelievable that NO ONE has mentioned the friggin express cart that beeps its horn every five feet telling everyone to get the f%*$ out of their way because the slow/fat/lazy people on board need a courtesy ride to the gate.

*BTW, I don't mind people riding that cart if they need to (ie. actually handicapped or 90 yrs old) I am mostly b*%$#ing about the ass driving.

I felt like ripping the driver out of his cart last week in San Diego, his horn was especially obnoxious.
 
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OH YEAH!!!!

Also, the last time I flew from SD to ATL, I was fortunate enough to be in the middle seat... boarding was almost done and I was the only one in my row, still looking nervously at who was inevitably be sitting on either side of me, and two women that may or may not have been bigger than Alex Boone and Steve Rehring come walking down the aisle... They are gabbing the whole way towards me.... as they approach, I start to sweat..... and they stop and look at me and say, "Hi we are in this row" The rest of the conversation unfolds:

ME: Okaaay, well I can move to either the window or the aisle since you two know one another, you can sit next to each other.

Woman #1: Nah, thats ok... (turns to cow #2) do you want aisle or window?
Lineman #2: I will take the window
ME: (starting to sweat) REALLY? Are you sure? I don't mind!
Sow #2 (like I didnt say anything says), hey can you hold my coat?
ME: uhhhh sure...
Heffer #1: Do you know.... how long is this flight?
ME:...........

So anyway... I am 6'3" 240.... and BOTH of these women were bigger than me. When the drink cart came, Neither one could get the little tray that comes out of the arm of the chair to lay flat on their lap because their legs were Jinormous.... so they just continued to talk around me and be fat. I sat there like a b*%$# with my arms folded for the next 4 hours day dreaming about their impending heart attacks....
 
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The only thing worse than crying babies is crying adults. That said, my biggest airport/airline annoyance is the inevitable break-down of dozens of grown men and women when the announcement comes that the flight is grounded, cancelled, or delayed enough that people are going to miss their connections.

You want to buy your own cheap tickets online? Well done! When the shit hits the fan, you'll wish you had paid the extra money to buy through a travel & transport agency, because the beauty of the travel agent is that when you're stranded, you just call them up and explain the situation and they can slide you right into another flight, even on a different airline, which is something you're probably not going to pull off on your own at a walk-up counter. Travel agents can also book your rental car/hotel reservation in 45 seconds before that mad dash of 120 people to claim only 30 available cars/rooms at a counter staffed by one guy when it's 1:00AM.

When you have a travel agent, you feel a lot like Neo being directed through his office by Morpheus with a cell phone in The Matrix. God bless travel agents.

And even if you do wind up having a Snickers and Mt. Dew dinner out of a vending machine, sleep for 6 hours on the floor of the terminal, and wind up shaving in a bathroom stall, it isn't worth fucking crying about.
 
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Dryden;1651563; said:
And even if you do wind up having a Snickers and Mt. Dew dinner out of a vending machine, sleep for 6 hours on the floor of the terminal, and wind up shaving in a bathroom stall, it isn't worth fucking crying about.
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WTF? Shaving anywhere, let alone a bathroom stall, is a dingable offense.
 
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Dryden;1651563; said:
The only thing worse than crying babies is crying adults. That said, my biggest airport/airline annoyance is the inevitable break-down of dozens of grown men and women when the announcement comes that the flight is grounded, cancelled, or delayed enough that people are going to miss their connections.

You want to buy your own cheap tickets online? Well done! When the shit hits the fan, you'll wish you had paid the extra money to buy through a travel & transport agency, because the beauty of the travel agent is that when you're stranded, you just call them up and explain the situation and they can slide you right into another flight, even on a different airline, which is something you're probably not going to pull off on your own at a walk-up counter. Travel agents can also book your rental car/hotel reservation in 45 seconds before that mad dash of 120 people to claim only 30 available cars/rooms at a counter staffed by one guy when it's 1:00AM.

When you have a travel agent, you feel a lot like Neo being directed through his office by Morpheus with a cell phone in The Matrix. God bless travel agents.

And even if you do wind up having a Snickers and Mt. Dew dinner out of a vending machine, sleep for 6 hours on the floor of the terminal, and wind up shaving in a bathroom stall, it isn't worth fucking crying about.
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I didn't know travel agents still existed.
 
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JimsSweaterVest;1651908; said:
I didn't know travel agents still existed.
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They do and at one point they used to be free as they received a "kickback" from the airline. Those days ended about 8-9 years ago and so they charge you to book a flight. Since I fly frequently (every week) I usually take care of my own flight arrangements and if things go south with a flight I have the airline reservation desk on speed dial. I can change my flight and enjoy dinner while most folks are in the queuing line trying to talk to an agent about their delayed/canceled flight. It does however, help that one has frequent flyer status with the airlines....:biggrin:
 
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